Let's pass the "-C <prefix>" option instead to "absorbgitdirs" from its only caller. When it was added in f6f85861400 (submodule: add absorb-git-dir function, 2016-12-12) there were other "submodule--helper" subcommands that were invoked with "-C <prefix>", so we could have done this all along. Suggested-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/submodule--helper.c | 3 --- git-submodule.sh | 2 +- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/submodule--helper.c b/builtin/submodule--helper.c index 8b4af8430dc..6bbefd34374 100644 --- a/builtin/submodule--helper.c +++ b/builtin/submodule--helper.c @@ -2830,9 +2830,6 @@ static int absorb_git_dirs(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) struct pathspec pathspec = { 0 }; struct module_list list = MODULE_LIST_INIT; struct option embed_gitdir_options[] = { - OPT_STRING(0, "prefix", &prefix, - N_("path"), - N_("path into the working tree")), OPT_END() }; const char *const git_submodule_helper_usage[] = { diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh index 5e5d21c010f..d359f171379 100755 --- a/git-submodule.sh +++ b/git-submodule.sh @@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ cmd_sync() cmd_absorbgitdirs() { - git submodule--helper absorbgitdirs --prefix "$wt_prefix" "$@" + git ${wt_prefix:+-C "$wt_prefix"} submodule--helper absorbgitdirs "$@" } # This loop parses the command line arguments to find the -- 2.38.0.1280.g8136eb6fab2